Maintenance Technician

Haileybury; Hertford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Haileybury is seeking a Maintenance Technician to join its Estates team. The role focuses on preventative and planned maintenance and minor repairs across the School’s buildings and facilities, ensuring a safe, compliant, and fit-for-purpose environment.

The successful candidate will hold a full UK driving licence and have experience in a similar maintenance or facilities role. The position is permanent, full-time (40 hours per week) with weekends on a rota basis, based on our Hertfordshire

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar maintenance or facilities role.
• Full UK driving licence required.
• Practical and proactive approach with strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide preventative and planned maintenance across School buildings.
• Carry out minor repairs and ensure safety and compliance.
• Work weekends on a rota basis.
• Support Estates team with facilities tasks.

Skills

Driving licence

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Independent worker

Job description

Haileybury is seeking to appoint a Maintenance Technician to join its Estates team.

Role

The primary objective of the role is to provide preventative and planned maintenance, together with minor repair services across the School’s buildings and facilities, ensuring the environment remains safe, compliant, and fit for purpose.

The successful applicant will hold a full UK driving licence and will have demonstrable experience in a similar maintenance or facilities role. The role requires a practical and proactive approach, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

This is a permanent, full time role working 40 hours per week, and will be required to work weekends on a rota basis.

Please see the candidate brief for further information.

About Haileybury

Haileybury is an outstanding independent co-educational boarding and day school of around 900 pupils aged 11 to 18. Established in 1862, the School is situated on a beautiful 500-acre estate in Hertfordshire.

Haileybury has an outstanding reputation in the UK and internationally, and is pleased to share an excellent outcome from its most recent Independent Schools Inspectorate visit in October 2025, highlighting a broad and balanced curriculum, enthusiastic teaching and an extensive range of sport, outdoor education, drama, and music. We are also thrilled that Haileybury has been awarded the prestigious title of Boarding School of the Year 2024 by Tes.

• Benefits offered include membership of the Operations staff pension scheme, lunch in the School’s magnificent Dining Hall (subject to hours of work), and use of the School’s facilities including gyms, a swimming pool, tennis club, and our Health and Wellbeing Centre.

The School has a diverse pupil body and is committed to its strategy of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates with a wide range of backgrounds to enrich our collective knowledge and experience. Appointments will be made on merit.

Haileybury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants for the above post must be willing to undergo child protection vetting, including reference checks with previous employers, prohibition checks and a criminal record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.